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Article #2775

Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-)

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From: Mark Lord
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 21:41
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In article <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>... you'll never be able to get > 600 K free with MS-DOS
>and one of QRAM, 386MAX etc. (unless you use hercules card). This is
>because MS-DOS must reside in low memory.

How strange.  On my MSDOS 3.3 system, I have about 612K free with QEMM.
This is a VGA system, with 4DOS as the command interpreter.
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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-)
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